The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt

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This book charts the development of the social sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in colonial and postcolonial Egypt, exploring the broader significance of knowledge production and its relationship to colonialist and nationalist ideologies. Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Knowledge Production PART I. The Anthropology of the Modern Egyptians: From the Fin-de-Siècle to the Second World War 1 The Ethnographic Moment 2 Anthropology’s Indigenous Interlocutors: Race and Egyptian Nationalism PART II. From Ethnographic Realism to Social Engineering: The Problem of the Peasantry, 1925–1945 3 The Painting of Rural Life 4 Rural Reconstruction: The “Road to a New Sanitary Life” PART III. The Problem of Population, 1925–1945 5 Barren Land and Fecund Bodies: The Emergence of Population Discourse in Interwar Egypt 6 Body Politics: Gender, Reproduction, and Modernity PART IV. The Revolutionary Moment 7 Etatism: Theorizing Egypt’s 1952 Revolution Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index